Description:Azumanga Daioh is a
quirky shoujo comedy based on a popular 4-panel comic strip about middle-school
life among a group of friends and three of their lunatic teachers. The comic
strip (manga) is by Kiyohiko Azuma, and it appears in the weekly Dengeki Daioh.
Combining these produces the name Azumanga Daioh. Everything about the series
displays trademark quirkiness: the character designs, the voice acting, the
music. The show has been compared to Seinfeld for the way that it finds comedy
in the events of everyday life and the daily interactions of a group of friends.
The series is wildly popular in Japan, with at least two of its characters (Chiyo-chan
and Osaka) regularly appearing in the top ten of the character-popularity polls.